Afternoon everyone!
Today our new
records by THE WHARVES and NORMIL HAWAIIANS are hitting the shelves
of shops near you. ‘Return Of The Ranters’ by Normil Hawaiians was originally
recorded in 1985, and it’s taken thirty years to see a proper release for this
lost magnum opus. Their music is a hypnotic swirl of improvised avant-punk
drifts and hymned mantras and it’s with a heart full of pride that we can say
we’ve helped see this record finally released. Available on black and white
180g vinyl and gatefold digipak CD (plus photo booklet), we’re very excited for
this one to make its way out there to you.
And it’s
keeping good company as The Wharves 7” also released today sounds equally outstanding.
Following on from
last year’s brilliant ‘At Bay’ album on Gringo Records, this brand new single
gives us a glimpse of what their next album ‘Electa’ will sound like next year.
Side A boasts the plaintive yet powerful track ‘NAZ’, which soars for the
sky with each vocal climb and guitar trail. Whilst, ‘My Will’ on the flipside
takes us back to a wintry past life, sounding practically medieval in its
quietude, before leaping up like a newly lit bonfire when a rebel choir of
friends and family join the fray. Limited to 500 copies in hand-embossed
sleeves, these won’t hang around for long.
Both records
are available now through our webshop from today as well!
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NEXT SHOW /////
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
SLIM TWIG is a twenty-six-year
old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’! His record reissued last year was
completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After
producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012),
and scoring two films, Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his
own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record.
They featured a cast of Toronto heavies. He briefly performed
Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy
(U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released
songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic,
synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the
cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest for
DFA.
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacific City Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacific City Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
TROON LIENAD (DJ Set)
https://www.mixcloud.com/troonlienad/
Thanks to all of you for coming out
this week to see Mikal Cronin and Calvin Johnson too, it was brilliant to see
you all.
Have the best weekend!
UTR
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
WHALO
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17
February
The Lexington,
96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
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